Thubten Chodron
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History of the lamrim
The history of the lamrim and how can Buddhists in the West can approach the…
View PostResistance to meditation on emptiness
How to work with resistance and unmet expectations during retreat. How do we feel close…
View PostMotivation for Chenrezig retreat
How our motivation prepares our mind for a retreat with Chenrezig, the manifestation of the…
View PostThe 12 links of dependent arising
Ending the 12 links of dependent arising, correcting wrong views in how we perceive a…
View PostEmptiness of self
Understanding unfamiliar concepts in the teaching: the mind, the self, and emptiness of the self.
View PostThe fourth distortion
The source of suffering is due to our misconceptions in perceiving phenomena.
View PostThe truth of the origin of suffering
Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.
View PostThe truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
View PostThe mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
View PostIntroduction
Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…
View PostEssence of Refined Gold
A treatise on the Lamrim Tradition of meditation, a tradition known as "Stages on the…
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